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RUINS OF PLATiEA. 279
Pausanias mentions three temples at this place ; that of Juno1
was sumptuously decorated, and enriched with statues and paintings.
There was also a temple2 of Minerva Area, and another of Ceres.3
Strabo mentions the temple4 of Jupiter, the deliverer: but Pausanias
only notices the statue, and the altar of the god. These two au-
thors often differ in their details.
Plutarch5 mentions the temple of Diana Eukleia at Plataea.
The Spartan king, Pausanias, was posted near the temple of Juno
at the commencement of the battle. After the victory, the Greeks
expended a sum of money equal to about ,£20,000, in devout con-
secrations of temples and statues. Indeed, previous to that period,
no great opinion can be formed, either of the strength or of the mag-
nificence of the town, which as its contingent at the battle of Plataea
was not able to furnish more than six hundred men, though eleven
years before they equipped a thousand troops to assist the Athenians
in the same cause. I could find no certain traces of these temples ;
there are several heaps of large stones, which perhaps mark, but do
not determine their situations.
The ruined church of Saint Demetrius is composed of blocks be-
longing to some ancient edifice ; here are two inscriptions, only one6
of which contains a few legible lines. These record the name of Mar-
cus Ulpius, probably the Boiotarch mentioned in an inscription which
I found at Kakosia. Bceotia was governed by eleven Boiotarchs.7
Here is also a frieze of white marble, enriched with Ionic orna-
ments. We could not discover any traces of a stadium, although there
probably was one; as Strabo8 mentions gymnastic exercises at Pla-
taea, which were the Eleutheria, or quinquennial games of liberty,
noticed by Plutarch9 and Pausanias.10
Herodotus11 relates that cenotaphs, composed of heaps of earth,
1 Nao<r. '. hpor. 3 Ibid. * Ibid. s Life of Aristides.
6 See the Appendix. 7 Thucyd.b. 4. c. 91. 8 B. 9. p. 412.
9 Life of Aristides. 10 B. 9. C. 2. u B. 9. c. 85. Xftfiwr**
Pausanias mentions three temples at this place ; that of Juno1
was sumptuously decorated, and enriched with statues and paintings.
There was also a temple2 of Minerva Area, and another of Ceres.3
Strabo mentions the temple4 of Jupiter, the deliverer: but Pausanias
only notices the statue, and the altar of the god. These two au-
thors often differ in their details.
Plutarch5 mentions the temple of Diana Eukleia at Plataea.
The Spartan king, Pausanias, was posted near the temple of Juno
at the commencement of the battle. After the victory, the Greeks
expended a sum of money equal to about ,£20,000, in devout con-
secrations of temples and statues. Indeed, previous to that period,
no great opinion can be formed, either of the strength or of the mag-
nificence of the town, which as its contingent at the battle of Plataea
was not able to furnish more than six hundred men, though eleven
years before they equipped a thousand troops to assist the Athenians
in the same cause. I could find no certain traces of these temples ;
there are several heaps of large stones, which perhaps mark, but do
not determine their situations.
The ruined church of Saint Demetrius is composed of blocks be-
longing to some ancient edifice ; here are two inscriptions, only one6
of which contains a few legible lines. These record the name of Mar-
cus Ulpius, probably the Boiotarch mentioned in an inscription which
I found at Kakosia. Bceotia was governed by eleven Boiotarchs.7
Here is also a frieze of white marble, enriched with Ionic orna-
ments. We could not discover any traces of a stadium, although there
probably was one; as Strabo8 mentions gymnastic exercises at Pla-
taea, which were the Eleutheria, or quinquennial games of liberty,
noticed by Plutarch9 and Pausanias.10
Herodotus11 relates that cenotaphs, composed of heaps of earth,
1 Nao<r. '. hpor. 3 Ibid. * Ibid. s Life of Aristides.
6 See the Appendix. 7 Thucyd.b. 4. c. 91. 8 B. 9. p. 412.
9 Life of Aristides. 10 B. 9. C. 2. u B. 9. c. 85. Xftfiwr**